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B. RICE.

BEER CHIP.

(No Model.)

No. 286,637. Patented Got. 16, 1883.

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BY WM m WITNESSES: AWVJQQM ATTORNEY n. PETERS Phuurlilhnquphm.Washinglnn. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

BERNARD RICE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BEER-CHIP...

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of "Letters Patent No. 286,637, dated October16, 1883.

Application filed July 2, 1883. (No model.)

called, for clarifying the beer, which is per-- forated for the purposeof increasing its superficies and allowing a-circulation of liquid,

. the holes extending in parallel rows with those of the other, one rowalternating with those of the other, so as to least weaken the article;also, in producing a roughened splintery edge on the veneer by breakingor splintering the same.

Heretofore beer-chips have been cut to a certain width by means of saws,knives, or shears, which gives the chip a comparatively smooth, edge,towhich no particles in the beer will adhere, confining the clarifyingfunctions to be performed solely through the surfaces of the chip.Should, as sometimes happens, two chips lie one upon the other, (whichis never the case with the edges of a chip,) the surfaces of such chips,and consequently the chip itself, will be inoperative and useless as aclarifier in the vat. In order to meet this deficiency and increase theclarifying properties of the chip in general,l make the edges of thechip splintery. as shown in Fig. 2. Amore minute description of formingsuch splintery edges in the chip is given hereinafter. It will be seenand admitted that to the splintery edges of a chip impurities in thebeer will readily ad here and be retained until cleansed and removed bythe action of the water in the re= by subjecting the wood or veneer tothe action of a pair of cutting-rolls, such as are described in LettersPatent No. 280,952, and

, presence of two witnesses.

granted to B. Rice, July 10, 1883. The wood or veneer is passed throughthe said-cuttingrolls, is wedged between the male and female cutters,which breaks or slits the veneer into chips, producing the desiredsplintery edges on the chips.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a chip in plan view. Fig. 2shows a chip with roughened edges. Fig. 3 shows an apparatus adapted tobe used in the manufacture of the chip. 1

The letterA designates the body of the chip, which may be cut to anyusual or suitable shape, and b are its holes or perforations. It will bereadily perceived that by these perforations the superficies of the chipare materially increased, while a circulation of the liquid in which thechip is used is allowed to take place, whereby the chip is kept freely7o suspended in the liquid, and is not liable to adhere to the other orremaining chips. Said holes I) are arranged in parallel rows-in thisexample extending longitudinally to the chip and those of one rowalternate with those of 7 the other, whereby the weakening effect of theholes is reduced to a minimum. For'the purpose of producing the holesb,dies O D, Fig. 3,

or any other suitable apparatus, may be used,

and, if desired, the holes, may be depressed in the chip Without goingentirely through it, as indicated in Fig. 2.

I claim 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a beer-chipperforated, substantially as shown 8 5 and described, for the purposeset forth.

2. A beer-chip perforated with holes, with those of one row alternatingwith those of the other, as shown and described,for the purposespecified.

3. A beer chip having broken splintery edges, as shown and described,for the purpose set forth.

' 4. A beer-chip having its body perforated and the edges roughened, asshown and described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in BERNARD RICE.

Witnesses:

Framers CLARE BOWEN,

lvloonn V. LAHY.

